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The Foods Standard Agency has now issued a warning, stating: “Co-op is recalling its Hollow Milk Chocolate Bunny because of an alleged product tampering where the product was found to contain a small battery.

“The presence of a small battery makes this product unsafe to eat and presents a risk to health.”

Watch batteries of any sort pose a substantial risk to adults and children if consumed and could cause serious internal burns, causing permanent injury or death.

Anyone who has bought the product, which was sold across all of the 2,800 Co-op stores, is asked not to eat it and return it to store for a full refund.

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A criminal investigation has started by the The National Crime Agency, following the discovery of a battery inside the chocolate-shaped rabbit.

The chocolates are understood to be manufactured in Germany, but ‘tampering’ may have taken place in Nottingham.

This is the second alleged ‘tampering’ incident in six weeks, with a national recall of Santas just before Christmas after batteries were found inside two of the chocolates.

In 2014, a Manchester doctor spoke out after a horrific spate of children swallowing ‘button batteries’, in which two children died.

Dr Kate Parkins, a consultant at Central Manchester University Hospital Trust, said - that over an 18 month period - two children in Greater Manchester and another five suffered life-changing injuries as a result.

She said the button-shaped batteries “look like sweets” to children but can cause severe internal bleeding which medics struggle to treat.